>Holly Herndon’s video for her dizzying new song “Eternal” follows the lonely journey of a machine as it analyzes and connects to a human face. It’s blurry and disorienting: a collage of eyes, ears, and mouths materializing in front of the camera, soundtracked by one of the most direct melodies Herndon has ever composed. Synth-orchestra blasts beam in from Y2K pop radio. A dance rhythm keeps stalling out while it’s buffering. “Right in front of my eyes,” a choir sings, slowly, in unison.
>Herndon’s process involves filtering human experiences through a maze of modern technology. For her new music, she developed an A.I. program called “Spawn” through which she feeds samples of her own vocals to retrieve alien renderings of herself. In her previous single, “Godmother,” a collaboration with Jlin, the result was abstract and alien—a spiral of buzzing gnats and gasping breaths that, in the video, culminated in both artists bursting into laughter. In “Eternal,” Herndon is still gazing in awe at an unfamiliar machine, learning its defining characteristics and tracing a pattern. Only now, you can now see her more clearly than ever.
This is great what's wrong with you OP? I guess thanks for sharing
Mason Flores
she looks ugly, so i will NOT be listening to her music. thank you.
Leo Harris
in what universe do you live in where this is a predictable music video
Brayden Young
i wanted to be into it and i wasn't. shrug
Jaxson Morgan
She's so hilariously overrated.
Christian Taylor
DUDE TECHNOLOGY LMAO
William Perez
Ponderous art school bullshit. Glad other anons can see through it too. Classic case of tryhard conceptual/craft compensation for lack of musical ideas. >I'm using AI neural net super google conceptual futuresoup holographic necortical hyper threading Cool. Can you make a good song please?
Joshua Wilson
this is great OP, thanks for sharing it's cool that she's still human in her lyrics despite the high-tech video concept, that's really cool to me. at a time when people are losing their humanity to techno-fetishism and it's turning into, like, a fucking religion where people think they're more than human because of technology. so this song is vital also the video is dope af
Jeremiah Hill
wow, and she's also getting her doctorate in composition? you've made a fan!
Mason Jenkins
major cringe
Evan Cooper
every someone says "art school bullshit" you just know that they listen to sadsoiboi indeh go back to thinking phil elverum is has ever made anything worth listening to
Bentley Powell
t. googleglass wearing wire reading cryptosoiboi I bet you're a communist too.
Wyatt Long
status quo bootlicker calls people communists when called out about his soi consumption habits, what a classic. but by any means go on with your jew-pushed anti-intellectual ideas, it won't hurt anyone, right?
Mason Wright
lmao nigga these people like herndon, laurel halo, opn et al. are the goodest of goys
Evan Sanchez
if you don't think they're playing both sides, you might as well not be thinking at all. Oh wait, you aren't. ooga booga intelligence bad is definitely their endgame though, and you're already lost
Jason Taylor
>status quo bootlicker calls people communists when called out about his soi consumption habits >jew-pushed anti-intellectual ideas NazBol?
Lincoln Reed
yeah but not a degenerate strasserist thanks
Alexander Turner
How can you be so cynical
Camden Hernandez
I didn’t understand the song or the video because I was distracted by her butthole eyes
Ayden Russell
>hi this piece is concerned with exploring, investigating and juxtaposing notions of queer transhumanism and self-concept in online spaces,,,,the video is a transversal deconstruction of whiteness made in collaboration with poc cyberfeminist artist collective k.u.n.t. and stars ten harelipped swiss albinos bathing in milk
holly's aight. her music ages very quickly and not particularly well. this track's not amazing. the other one was more raw, better.
that said, the write ups and the way they've chosen to talk about the process here is awful and infuriating. also, the fact that the person who forked and likely trained the algorithm doesn't really get a mention in most publications is equally awful.
i don't need some PR shitlord to explain style transfer to me by talking about 'mothers' and other new-age tripe. give me a technical paper to read instead.
Connor Adams
I listen to techno and IDM, i.e. what Holly Herndon thinks she's too good to just do honestly.
Dominic Adams
The fact is, I never post here. I just lurk. I’m gathering data for a social study involving pressures of nonconformism and social isolation among teens 16-18 yo. I usually observe your behavior in Billie Eilish threads, but I admit I did not anticipate the sheer breadth and extent of your faggotry, so I am compelled to finally comment. I’m very concerned with your development into well-adjusted members of society because of how compulsive and habitual these behaviors appear. If any of you would like me to share some mental health resources with you in private please reach out to me at my email in the name field.
Jackson Gutierrez
...lol is this a real quote? It honestly seems like parody
Jeremiah Murphy
>who forked and likely trained the algorithm doesn't really get a mention in most publications is equally awful. Describing "A.I." as simply a dumb algorithm doing statistics trained by computer science nerds doesn't do much for the narrative that the so-called "Spawn" is some latently conscious being that is actively contributing to the creative process. As Holly said:
>Choosing to work with an ensemble of humans is part of our protocol. I don’t want to live in a world in which humans are automated off stage. I want an A.I. to be raised to appreciate and interact with that beauty.
Sounds a lot more "spooky" than describing A.I. as what it really is (quote a machine learning expert): “AI” doesn’t exist. Machine learning is a force multiplier and productivity enhancer for statisticians.
Connor Collins
>her music ages very quickly and not particularly well name some artists who put out something in the recent years that you think aged slowly and particularly well
Gabriel Martin
the concept sounds like some tryhard art school project, but the song is fucking really cool
Robert Collins
music is ok but she's the biggest pseud of the decade, jesus christ
William Scott
I think what makes music age really well is sense and depth of composition a la Bjork, whereas Holly Herndon and even avant-composers like Stockhausen and Oliveros kinda lack it.
>Describing "A.I." as simply a dumb algorithm doing statistics trained by computer science nerds doesn't do much for the narrative that the so-called "Spawn" is some latently conscious being that is actively contributing to the creative process. As Holly said: >>Choosing to work with an ensemble of humans is part of our protocol. I don’t want to live in a world in which humans are automated off stage. I want an A.I. to be raised to appreciate and interact with that beauty. The lengths bitches go through to avoid doing their duty and having a kid...
Joseph Russell
She calls the Spawn algorithm her baby. Lol. But I think that's just her playing up the conceptual aspects (i.e. Dude, Technology LMAO) of the album. But there's really nothing conceptually new here. Composers/musicians have been using algorithms since the 50s in similar ways. From a marketing standpoint, smart move on her part, as the "A.I" hype is big right now, giving her something more to talk about in interviews beyond saying, "My new album is 'experimental' electronic music. Please listen." Sounds a lot more sexy when she can say, "I created an AI baby for this record."
Christopher Johnson
The concept seems somewhat cheap which is annoying because this is someone who ostensibly runs in the same circles as Reza Negarestani and it honestly doesn’t show
Isaac Peterson
Algorithms have been commonplace in sound generation for decades, yes. >Sounds a lot more sexy when she can say, "I created an AI baby for this record." I guess, though we all know she didnt create an AI. It was created by said science nerds that she went out of her way to trash for some reason. It'd be more shocking if she had created a conceptual electronic album about why a woman would create an AI over having a child.
Andrew James
>the fact that the person who forked and likely trained the algorithm doesn't really get a mention in most publications is equally awful isn't that mat dryhurst? aren't they romantic partners and don't they shout each other out plenty?
